New research reveals that honey bee queen development depends on specialized royal cells and worker bees, not just royal ...

When most people think of bees, they picture honey bees buzzing around a hive. But honey bees are just a small part of a much ...

Bees are amazing animals. Detailed studies show that they enjoy rich and deep social, cognitive, and emotional lives. They display dopamine-based positive emotions, get depressed, anxious, and ...

I don’t think there is another animal on the planet considered to be as beneficial to humanity as the honey bee (Apis mellifera). For our earliest hominid ancestors, to have come across a wild bee ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once turned piles of animal bones into nurseries. Instead of burrowing into soil ...

ATHENS, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dalan Animal Health, Inc. (“Dalan”), the biotech company pioneering insect health with the world’s first honey bee vaccine, is proud to announce its first product ...

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs. The ...

How do you vaccinate a honeybee? And will beekeepers care enough to do it? Those are the questions Annette Kleiser has been wrestling since founding Dalan Animal Health in 2018. Five years after ...

Scientists can get animals to do the strangest things. They’ve taught goldfish to drive cars, primates to perform calculations with Arabic numerals and giraffes to do statistical reasoning. But what’s ...